Evaluation
The principles underpinning evaluation activities which include impartiality and objectivity, relevance, use and participation, credibility and to a certain extent measurability are consistent with SEforALL’s values of partnership, agility, diversity, equity, results, and trust. Our evaluations employ certain evaluation criteria in keeping with the guidance provided by the OECD-DAC. This may include relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability, gender equity, innovativeness in result areas, replication and scalability, and coherence and complementarity.
Evaluation is a systematic assessment that produces evidence to inform what works and what does not, why, for whom, how much and under what circumstances. SEforALL conducts evaluation activities to help measure and assess expected and unexpected results and consequences and examine how and why change occurred (or not).
Evaluation promotes and supports several functions including accountability, learning and knowledge sharing, and evaluation-related capacity development. In promoting accountability, the evaluation function underscores the important role for all stakeholders in ensuring that results are measured, validated, reported and understood. In supporting learning and knowledge sharing, it specifically recognizes the role of informing decision-making and improving future operations using evaluative evidence. In supporting evaluation-related capacity development, the generation of evaluative evidence and in the use of state-of-the-art evaluative methods helps in building capacity and guiding and informing investments and their performance.
Through our evaluation activities, we aim to:
(i) Provide robust evidence on the contribution of our interventions towards intermediate and long-term outcomes.
(ii) Identify any unexpected outcomes resulting from SEforALL’s interventions that cannot be revealed through monitoring; and
(iii) Capture and understand the good practices, lessons learned, and indirect effects of our work across programmatic activities.
Evaluations also consider progress against SEforALL's theory of change, including intermediate impacts and how they contribute towards specific projects that then help drive SDG7 in alignment with the Paris Agreement.
The principles underpinning evaluation activities which include impartiality and objectivity, relevance, use and participation, credibility and to a certain extent measurability are consistent with SEforALL’s values of partnership, agility, diversity, equity, results, and trust. Our evaluations employ certain evaluation criteria in keeping with the guidance provided by the OECD-DAC. This may include relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability, gender equity, innovativeness in result areas, replication and scalability, and coherence and complementarity.